Joanne, this means a lot coming from you. I want to believe that will happen, but today I just don’t have hope. We may have pulled ourselves out of bad situations in our country before, but we never had to contend with propaganda on a scale this massive before.

I live in a maga town and was at a xmas party last weekend. People were wearing “trump 2028” hats and “better dead than democrat” hats.
We need to learn the lesson from the last election: he has strong support and they will never turn on him.

Sorry to tell you, that will never happen. My family is maga and are convinced he is the greatest prez ever. All economic woes are the fault of dem governors, according to them. I know more people that are maga than not, they’ll never change. We need to get over the fantasy that they will.

I’m surrounded by both cult members and people who are completely tuned out. It’s the latter that really bother me. I think because we lived thru decades of relative stability, people just assume it will always be that way. Plus, we‘re swimming upstream of a lot of media who normalize these times.

I prefer to believe that facebook is overrun by bots, because every comment section is filled with “kill them all” or ”deport them all” or the overused laughing emoji on a sad story. I have to believe they’re all bots, right?

I work at a food bank in interior Alaska and we have more families than ever using our services. People from other boroughs in the state contacting us for help, and military families from a nearby base calling to get assistance. We are at our maximum. In need of donations and volunteers.

These are the people trying to justify their “protest” non-vote that led to the shit-show we’re in now. They want to sit on their high-horse and talk over everyone, so they don’t have to come to terms with their part in installing the current admin.

I appreciate your writing, but I think this is wishful thinking. Examples throughout history show that extreme tribalism is baked into humanity. The maga mindset has always been part of America and always will be. They’ll latch on to the next figurehead. They’re not giving up the next 3 yrs of power

Remember last year’s holiday posts? They were just as bad. He called half the country scum. This is not an escalation for him. If it didn’t matter then, why would it matter now? Look, I get that we all keep hoping the GOP will come to their senses, but it’s not gonna happen.

Many Republicans will not fight against his cruelty until it’s them facing his barrel.

Whether it’s wanting to defend our ideals or selfish self-preservation, more Americans reject his darkness every day.

When the pendulum finally swings towards sanity and decency, let it do so like a hammer.

Yes, a man with integrity that treats women well. Practically unheard of these days.